
PICTURED #9: New Irish Works, PhotoIreland
Our series on art books continues with New Irish Works, a rich resource showcasing a wealth of projects from 25 artists born or based in Ireland.
Our series on art books continues with New Irish Works, a rich resource showcasing a wealth of projects from 25 artists born or based in Ireland.
A.P.T Gallery, Creekside, Deptford
30 August – 22 September 2013
This year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries features the work of 46 students and recent graduates from UK art schools. Ranging from minimalist purism to a giant ‘fish finger’, it provides a snapshot of current work that delights and bemuses.
Constructing childhood and performing memories “When you were a child you had to create yourself from whatever was to hand. You had to construct yourself and make yourself into a person, fitting somehow not the niche that in your family […]
Jas, is one of many women in my project: Women: using photography to create a community of women.
For the latest instalment in our series on art books, Tim Clark pulls Simon Menner’s new publication, Top Secret, off the shelf and reflects on photographs from the Stasi archive that document the surveillance work of the former East Germany.
Women: Using photography to create a commumity of women. This residency continues into its second week. Three women, from the vicinity around Meantime, have been photographed so far. To follow this blog on wordpress, go to: http://www.vicky445.wordpress.com
This week our recommendations include naked youths and found objects in Wakefield, a glass pavilion in the Scottish countryside, and contemporary art-themed crazy golf in Derby.
I would argue that a healthy range of different arts facilities are vital for a thriving city; as evidenced in Gateshead (Baltic and Sage), MIMA in Middlesborough, Walsall Contemporary Art Gallery and the multi million pound development currently underway in […]
Three new artists join as studio holders here from September. Its such an excting time as they bring in lots of cardboard boxes, making trips to Ikea for shelves and storage, installing new mugs and coffee jars in the kitchen […]
Studio75 as a physical space closed in May 2013. We learned a lot from setting up and running this space. Some of what we learned was very disappointing and some of it was inspiring and life/art affirming. We met some […]
The Blumenfeld Experience Trying not to waste a thought; but if I’m not doing it tonight, I know it’ll drag until it’s gone!? So here it is – a quick post about photography or, shall I say, a short list […]
Continuing our series on art books, Tim Clark savours the beautiful simplicity of Aleix Plademunt’s Almost There, a galaxy-spanning journey into the photographer’s physical existence.
This week’s must-see shows include images of witches and witchcraft in Edinburgh, Mass Observation photography in London and artist-grown cucumbers in Leeds.
Week 45: 22nd – 28th JulySometimes the most interesting finds are the ones that you stumble upon by accident, and walking into the ‘Emporium of Optical Novelty’, by photographer and film-maker Simon Warner, was one such occasion. This pop-up curiosity […]
WE ARE ALIVE AGAIN Awaking early from a nightmare about a painful estrangement from a brother.Come on, come on, get up, we have to go out.The three of us, escaping into the pale morning sun, I need to walk it […]
Family photography: Archives, albums and groupings Going back this weekend to finish ‘Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age’ (Ed Loewenthal) I read an intriguing chapter by Rodolfo de Bernart, who is professor of Family Therapy in Psychiatry at […]
For her solo show at the Grundy Art Gallery, New York-based artist Zoe Beloff has created a Freudian dreamland that draws on the famous psychoanalyst’s visits to Coney Island and Blackpool Pleasure Beach. The result, reports Bob Dickinson, is a thrill ride into a fictional past.